FAQs

JEvents features a tool to edit the layout of the event detail page, event list pages and the monthly calendar cell/tooltips (JEvents 2.0+ only) .  This video gives a quick demonstration of this in action for the event detail page.  NB when editing the monthly calendar cell or tooltips it is essential that you disable the WYSIWYG editor. .....

In JEvents it is possible to import events from a CSV file.  The format of this file is very important - some users find MS Excel doesn't give enought flexibility to set the field delimiter to a comma and it often ends up leaving out the double quotes around the fields. If you have these problems then I'd revommend you try OpenOffice or LibreOffice instead to create the extract. It must include the following columns:[codep]"CATEGORIES","SUMMARY","LOCATION","DESCRIPTION","CONTACT","X-EXTRA.....

Welcome to the JEvents Quick Install Guide, this guide is based on JEvents 3.x. It will help guide you through the inital setup of JEvents within your Joomla! installation. To start please select which version of Joomla! you are using: {toggle}Joomla! 2.5.x [+]|Joomla! 2.5.x [-]| 1. Download the JEvents Component from the JEvents Product Page. 2. Login to your Joomla! Administrator interface, select Extensions, Extension Manager. 3. Make sure you are on the Install screen, next cli.....

If you want to customise the JEvents stylesheets or background icons/images without loosing your changes each time you upgrade you can create a stylesheet override. .....

Categories After you install JEvents you should open the component in the backend and click on 'Manage Categories'.  As the name suggests categories are used to organise events into different types.  You could have categories like 'kids', 'adults', 'families' or 'football', 'tennis', 'running' - whatever suits your data structure. You can have multi level categories e.g. 'tennis' and 'football'  at a top level then 'kids tennis' and 'pro tennis' beneath tennis etc. When you cr.....

In JEvents 2.1+ we added special module positions to allow you to display instructions to site visitors/event creators or to place the other related modules like the filter module in more helpful positions. Please be aware that you need to enable the core Joomla! plugin 'Content - Load Modules' for this feature to work The positions include: Before JEvents is loaded:jevprejevents, jevprejevents_year.listevents, jevprejevents_week.listevents, jevprejevents_cat.listevents, jevprejevents_day.li.....

If you want to override specific language strings from the en-GB.com_jevents.ini file you can create a special override for these changes what won't get overwritten when you upgrade. Joomla provides an easy mechanism for overriding language strings in any component or module. In the back-end of Joomla select the Language Manager from the Extensions Menu and then select "Overrides". Here you are can create new language overrides - there is a clever search tool to find the strings you want to c.....

In JEvents you can override the formatting of dates and times by changing the translations of various key translation strings (see the related link at the bottom of this page for an explanation about how to customise parts of the JEvents translations).  If you want to do this then on the first tab of the JEvents config you should make sure you set the option to use date formats from the language file. In english the default translation strings are: DATE_FORMAT_0="%A, %d %B %Y"&nbs.....

This PHP script assumes you have used the jUpgrade or SP Upgrade tool or similar to migrate from 1.5 to 2.5/3.x to preserve user ids. First update JEvents on source and target websites to the latest JEvents version, and back up both websites to be safe! Download the script from here and unzip. In phpMyAdmin or similar, remove all the Joomla 2.5/3.x jevents tables: j25_jevents_categories j25_jevents_exception j25_jevents_catmap j25_jevents_icsfile j25_jevents_repbyday j25_jevents_rep.....

This document will show you how to recreate the Iconic Layout used on the Demo Site. .....

This is part of the Custom Format String which can be removed by customising the Custom Format String. Refer to the Custom Format Strings document. .....

JEvents and the club addons use Cronjobs/Scheduled tasks to perform various tasks on a periodic basis. .....

Q. I have changed the time formatting to 12hour, but it's not changed everywhere?  A. This happens in the Latest Events Module, this module has a defined time string within it's custom format string. To allow customisable output, to change it please see this document ( here )  .....

Q. I want to redirect users automatically to the Event Detail if the Day List view only have one event. A. As of JEvents 3.x we have added this as a configuration option in: JEvents -> Configuration -> Event Detail. Set: Redirect Day View With 1 Event to Event Detail to YES. .....

Google (and other search engines) can pick up Rich Snippets/Microdata from your webpages to enhance the presetation of your event data in their search pages.  See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164506 for more information. .....

If you recieve the following error: Error 403 'You are not authorised to view this resource' When attempting to create an event whilst logged in as a Super Administrator, then you probably: enabled authorised user mode for event editing/creation Enabled authorised user mode for event editing/creation (JEvents Configuration -> Permissions) And did not set up the Super Admin user as an authorised event creator, in JEvents cPanel -> Authorised Users. To fix this you should setup th.....

You may see this message on some servers when you try to save an event. It arises because you have configured JEvents to check for overlapping events when you save a new or changed event.  If you don't need this on your site then disable this option - if you do want to block overlapping events then please read on: It is usually caused by the fact that your server cannot run the script components/com_jevents/libraries/checkconflict.php usually because you have installed a security setting .....

As of JEvents 2.0+ you should take a look at the JEvents Custom layouts editing tool first - this allows you to customise your event detail and list pages without needing to do any PHP coding. Click here for more information So you want to customise one of the layouts provided by JEvents but you don't want these changes to be lost when you upgrade.  This is a very brief guide - if you want more general information about template overrides then I'd recommend you search for Joomla! template.....

Some templates are clever and add the links after the link in a print view, the reason for this is you don't know where the link is on a text document, so we print it. Unfortunately, this is really bad in a JEvents view like the monthly calendar. The url is at the bottom of the page so users can just find the exact page that way. So we can use this code in your templates Custom CSS section. The code is:

@media print { #jevents_body a:after {content:"" !important;} }

This shou.....